We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.