Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.