All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.