An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.