There is no working middle course in wartime.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

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

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.