Genius, when young, is divine.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.