Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Publish and be damned.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

A great country ought not to make little wars.