“no hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle”

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.”

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.”

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.”

“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”