The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.