Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.