Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

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