One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.