People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.