All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

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

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.