There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.