You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.