It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Never repeat old grievances.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.