Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.
Nothing succeeds so well as success.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.