Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.