The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

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.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.