Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
The only obligation we owe to history is to rewrite it.
To recommend austerity to the poor is monstrous and offensive. It's like suggesting to someone dying of hunger to eat less.
Modern journalism, by giving us the opinions of the uneducated, keeps us in touch with the ignorance of society.
The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Youth is one thing worth having.
Confession is not the priest who gives us absolution of sins.
Death is not God. It is only a servant of God.
Destiny, in its dealings with man, never settles its accounts.