The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.