Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.