There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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