"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

"It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty."

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."

"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table."

"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."

"A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say."

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,the spines of others are often stiffened."

"On action alone be thy interest,Never on its fruits.Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,Nor be thy attachment to inaction."