When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
I've fallen in love with baseball.
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.
Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in.