Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.