The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.