Nothing is said that has not been said before.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'