The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

Never let a good crisis go to waste

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.