Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.