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

"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."

"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation."

"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."

"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 to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person."