Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

There are words which cut like steel.