Politics is the science of urgencies.
I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
All men desire to be immortal.
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.