Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."