The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.