Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.