We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.