We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.