John Trenchard Quotes

“All that great wealth came to my hands, and if I do not say how great it was, ‘tis that I may not wake envy, for it was far more than I could have thought.”

“I can neither turn the stone out myself, nor stop you from turning it out if you so mind; but if you do this thing, and dishonour the graveyard, there is One stronger than either you or I that must be reckoned with.”

“Thou art my diamond, and I would rather lose all other diamonds in the world than aught should come to thee. So, if thou doubtest, let me go, or let not any go at all.”

“I was he who had come through the surf last night alive, and this poor body was my friend who had laid down his life for me.”

″...to think that he had given up the safety he had won for himself, and laid down his life, there on the beach, for me...”