Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.