India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.