There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense…

There's less to him than meets the eye.

No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute, Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.