The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room. - Anthony Trollope

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin. These are the gifts we want, but we can't always get them, and have to do without them.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.