The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.