There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.