The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

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

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

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.