The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.