“NOW this is the Law of the Jungle as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk th...”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

“Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.”

“Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delus...”

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds be...”

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; tis something, nothing;twas mine, tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he th...”