Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The less government we have the better.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
It is natural to die as to be born.
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
