There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.