As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.