You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.