Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

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

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

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

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.

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.