If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.