Let no man or woman call its events improbable. The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism. - John Buchan

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

He was a bad acquaintance for a placid, sedentary soul like me, for though he could work like a Trojan when the fit took him, he was never at the same job very long. In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses for the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get into the semi-final of the racquets championship. I waited daily to see him start a new religion.