 Lack of money is the root of all evil. |
| I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. |
| Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. |
| In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. |
| Youth is wasted on the young. |
| Syllables govern the world. |
| Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. |
| Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? |
| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. |
| The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. |
| Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. |
| Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. |
| No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. |
| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. |
| Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. |
| Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. |
| The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. |
| There is no sincerer love than the love of food. |
| Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. |
