Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.