The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.