If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage; If Right made Might, this were the golden age; But now, until we win the long campaign, Right must gain Mig…

One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised