Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.