Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.