Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.