Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.