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.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.