Ignorance never settles a question.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.