I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.