I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.