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.

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

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.

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

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.