Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?