You know," he added reflectively, "we've got a much easier job now than we should have had fifty years ago. If we'd had to modernise a country then it would have meant constitutional monarchy, bicameral legislature, proportional representation, women's suffrage, independent judicature, freedom of the press, referendums . . .

Delay is preferable to error.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

Genius is sorrow's child.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.