Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.