Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The object of powder is powder.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.