I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

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.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I like a man who grins when he fights.