Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.