We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.