Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.