My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.