We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.