Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. – William Morris Hughes
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate nothing but the changeableness of the weather. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man. – John Selden
