Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""