Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!