As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.