'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.