Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.