Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.