Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Never run away from anything. Never!