Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.