... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

Old men make war, young men fight and die