“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
“He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
“Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.”
“And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''”
“And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''”
“Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.”
“For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.”
“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”
“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”
“Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.”
“All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.”
“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.”
“Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.”
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.”
“A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.”
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.”
“Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.”
“All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.”
“I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.”
“God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.”
“'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.”
“The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.”
“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.”
“But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.”