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

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.