My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.