“From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.”

“I fear you may have matriculated at the Humphrey Tonkin School ofNonpartisan Debate. I do not, however, have a sense that you were his starpupil.”

“The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.”

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

“That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.”

“I believe that if you speak from your heart each time you open your mouth, you cannot go wrong.”