“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.”

“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.”

“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”

“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”

“The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”

“He had spent much of his childhood perched on the coast, with the taste of salt in the air: this was a place of woodland and river, mysterious and secretive in a different way from St. Mawes, the l...”

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”

“[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.”

“So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless hand of force, from the the legal, but unfortunate possessors, in a far distant region, where th...”

“I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the no...”

“... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”