"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

"No one ever stated their troubles As lightly as they might."

"A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen."

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."

"True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible."

"It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth."

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."

"MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees."

"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."