Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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."

When angry, count to a hundred.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.