You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.