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.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

This blessed gift of smoking!

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

A young mistress is better than an old master.