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.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Great and good are seldom the same man.