I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Performance should be made square with promise.

It is not the critic who counts

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.