Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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