England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

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.