It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.