Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

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

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.