If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.

Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable