Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!