The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. The English never draw a line without blurring it. My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Never, never, never, never give up. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. |