I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

Publish and be dammed.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.