The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.