It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

What is life but a'series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.