Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.