Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.