You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.