All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.