If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.