A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.