There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.