How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.