The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

History is only gossip.