Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.