It is always dangerous to generalise, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for ...the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, an...d in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalising effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralise the American public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue....... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth--the power to love--although I have put it last, is the rarest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, an...d it needs--apart from discernment--a certain greatness to find him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has "never had a chance, ...poor devil," you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps,... and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »