Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.