There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

THERE IS NO LOVE SINCERER THAN THE LOVE OF FOOD.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.