Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.