The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.