Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

History is written by the victors.