One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.