We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

In great deeds something abides.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

On great fields something stays.

Learn to think impartially.

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling, " according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

You can't grow a beard if you shave

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Patience. I will become what I know I am.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.