But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.