| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Books | Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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| Gratitude | I feel a very unusual sensation -- if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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| Law | When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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| Lies | There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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| Life | Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
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| Man | Life is too short to be small.
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| World history | Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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