It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

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

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.