Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

Success is never final.

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.