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.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.