A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

These are great days.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.