You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

God is on the side of the big battalions.