At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.