Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

I work as my father drank.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.