The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.