Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.