We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.