Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Vigorous writing is concise.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.