I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.