In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.