I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.