If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.