Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

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

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.