Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

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

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.