I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.