How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals." Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.