The censorship method, which is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it; and impossible bats and owls must be banished with them.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy.
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
Find enough clever things to say, and you are a Prime Minister. Write them down, and you are a Shakespeare.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
