Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Only people who are well off can be - complex.

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.