When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.