All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

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.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.