When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.