The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

There but for the grace of God, goes God.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.