Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'