Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Men of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active.

Thoughtless dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting you would soon find out".

So it is naturally with the male and the female, the one is superior the other inferior, the one governs the other is governed, and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

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