If I Were The First

Don't Give Your Sons Money. Give Them Horses. Many A Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Money But No Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Horses. Unless They Fell And Broke Their Neck, Which When Taken At The Gallop Is A Very Good Death To Die.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

History Will Be Kind To Me For I Intend To Write It.

Achievement Is Not Last, Disappointment Is Not Deadly: It Is The Mettle To Proceed With That Matters.

Nature Will Not Be Admired By Proxy.