When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.