Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.