Fear is the parent of cruelty.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.