From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

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.