Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.

Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty.