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

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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.