When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.

Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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

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

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.