I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.