If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.