A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.