An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.