It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Enthusiasm moves the world.