If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

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

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.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened