I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.