It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb – There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
It was at “Little Lodge” I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as ‘the Governess’ was announced.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.
I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.
Unpunctuality is a vile habit.