Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.