The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.