Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled