The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.