No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.