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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.