There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.