Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

True friends stab you in the front.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.