Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

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.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.