Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.