The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change