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

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.