You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.