If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.