Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
~ Dean William R. Inge
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.