A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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

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

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.