It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.