Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

A jug fills drop by drop.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I am not now That which I have been.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.