The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose