After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Effective action is always unjust.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.