The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.