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 easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

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.

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

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.