It Is Easier To Influence Strong Than

I Was Born In The Country Of Hogg And Scott Between The Yarrow And The Tweed, In The Year 1864.

There Is Nothing More Perplexing In Life Than To Know At What Point You Should Surrender Your Intellect To Your Faith.

The First Element Of Greatness Is Fundamental Humbleness (this Should Not Be Confused With Servility); The Second Is Freedom From Self; The Third Is Intrepid Courage, Which, Taken In Its Widest Interpretation, Generally Goes With Truth; And The Fourth-the Power Of Love-although I Have Put It Last, Is The Rarest.

The Announcement That You Are Going To Tell A Good Story (and The Chuckle That Precedes It) Is Always A Dangerous Opening.

[on Austen Chamberlain:] He Is More Loyal To His Friends Than To His Convictions.