There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

What a fool I have been!

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.