To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

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