It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.