Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.