If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

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

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

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.