Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to ob….

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening..

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius..

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864..

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death..

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government..

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happines….

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up..

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your ancho….

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig..

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life..

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and sn….

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature..

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it..

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone..

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions..

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head..

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be te….

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk..

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few..

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries ….