"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Put out the light."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court."

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!"

"Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful."

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

"Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live."