All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.