It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.