How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.