Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

The Battle of Britain. . . . The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the was. . . . Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth, last for a thousand years, man will say, "This was their finest hour."

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.