The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another. Portrait of an Age (1936)
To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy. Portrait of an Age (1936)
A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults. Portrait of an Age (1936)
It was one of Lord Salisbury's paradoxes that only uncontentious legislation should be brought before Parliament: if it were contentious, then public opinion was not ripe for it. Portrait of an Age (1936)