Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

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

Without ships, we cannot live.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.