Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.