It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.