What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.