The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.