Love of glory can only create a great hero contempt of glory creates a great man.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch

Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.

I am thankful to the Lord His daily provisions.

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.