Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.