Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country..

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the ….

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to….

His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavour….

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles..

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now..

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews..

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all..

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for h….

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained..

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'..

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared..

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages….

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare ….

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming..

Ask with urgency and passion..

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself do….