A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Writing a book is an adventure.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.