Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour
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. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus