Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

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

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

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.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

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