My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.