A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.