As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.