Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.