The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.