But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.