Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat