If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.