This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.