• We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

    F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead: We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
    'Contemporary Personalities' (1924) 'Marquess Curzon'.