You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.