We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.