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

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The harder I work the more I live.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.