Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.