We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad