When a new book appears one should read an old one.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.