Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]