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

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.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

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.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.