Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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.