We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!