God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.