Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

We must end war before war ends us.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.