A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.