Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

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

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.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

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

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

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.