When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.