It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.