A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.