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.

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.