Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.