Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.