For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.