"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"You have delighted us long enough."

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted."