Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.