I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.