Such was the picture presented to the public, and such was the mood which ruled. It was not however entirely in accordance with the facts; and facts, especially in war, are stubborn things.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.