If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.