I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.