Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.