Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.