If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.