Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.