A great country ought not to make little wars.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
Habit is ten times nature.
Publish and be damned.
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.