I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.