One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

We die, because we live.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.