“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
“The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
“You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life
“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example