When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.