The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.