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.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

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.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward