Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?