If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.