A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.