Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.