Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.