Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.