By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

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.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.