There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.