We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.