I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

People who don't count won't count.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.