Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

History is a bucket of ashes.