No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.