Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with

The merit of originality is not novelty it is sincerity

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong

Man is a tool-using Animal.... Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world