I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.