I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur BalfourKant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
Arthur BalfourWhy can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
Arthur BalfourBut 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.
Arthur Balfour