Those who prepare for war get it.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.