Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DLwas a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and later Foreign Secretary...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 July 1848
party advice conservative
I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference
forgiveness forgiving forget
I never forgive, but I always forget.
four world volume
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
law heaven sublime
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 it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
art school men
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 down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.
brother soup-kitchens giving
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 spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.
men heaven age
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.
country safety faithful
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
clarity liability
Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
funny art book
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
men promise young
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
atmosphere climate belief
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
advice would-be conflict
Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.