Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

Some men have sufficient strength of mind to change their disposition, or at least to yield to imperative circumstances.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired …

The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible sym…

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.