His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The old saying holds. Owe your banker £1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed.
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If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
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He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen.
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Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits, a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
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It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.
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