I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.