In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Enthusiasm moves the world.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.