A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.