Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.