By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.