Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.