Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife..

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears..

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 ….

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled..

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old A….

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the ….

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs..

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story..

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity..

No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous g….

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; I….

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at….

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter Yo….

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.

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..