Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.