Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."