It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.