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