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.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

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

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

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

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.