It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.