When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.