A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I never expect a soldier to think.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.