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.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.