The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

In fact, I am never wrong.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.