A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that there's a zone o….

War hath no fury like a non-combatant..

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations..

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth..

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of hi….

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the l….

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it..

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line..

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains o….

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used….

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them..