They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.