Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.