Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

Idling has always been my strong point.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.