There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Beginnings are always messy.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.