One sure path to failure is the readiness to blame everyone else for your misfortune.

Only those who can see the invisible, can do the impossible.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

People love to see people fall.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.