In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.