The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

War? War is an organized bore.