No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.