Arthur Balfour

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

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

It may well be that if mankind could draw up a hedonistic balance sheet the pleasures of mundane existence would turn out to be greater than its sufferings.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.