You must look at facts, because they look at you.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.