Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.