Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

History is the distillation of rumour.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.