A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.