My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.