Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.