Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

There is only one universal passion fear.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.