Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

There are people who find it odd to eat four or five Chinese meals in a row; in China, I often remind them, there are a billion or so people who find nothing odd about it.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.