I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.