I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.