Occupation: Writer Birth: December 30, 1865 Death: January 18, 1936
I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call u….
The Navy is very old and very wise..
The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Ea….
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life..
He who faces no calamity gains no courage..
The Guns, Thank God, The Guns..
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals….
Everyone is more or less mad on one point..
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave..
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors..
Believe the best of everybody..
There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this col….
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew..
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work..
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins..
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can ….
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and t….
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless..
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe..
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England..
There is no harm in a man's cub..