If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

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.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.