Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.