W. Somerset Maugham

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.