Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.