I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.