Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.