Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Be my brother or I will kill you.