Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.