Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.

Next year's concerts around the UK and Ireland will be the first arena tour I've done for years and it's fantastic to think I'll be playing in all to hundreds of thousands of people.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.