Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

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.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

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

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.