We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.