We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.