"All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the …"

"It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct t…"

"Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels."

"Politics is the art of human happiness."

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"