Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.