You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you had better. This is not a legend, this is a reputation - and seen in perspective, it may well be one of the most secure reputations of our time.

At the heart of every great fortune lies a great crime.

He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it's a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so th…

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

I just want that one day, when I retire, that people still remember me like they remember Buster. I really want someone to respect me the way they respect Bust…

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world…

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.