To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?