Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Human behavior is timeless.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.