He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, f...
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only th...
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
I work as my father drank.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.