Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.