"Behind every fortune there is a crime...." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

“Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.”

“Wealth is the number of things one can do without.”

“The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.”

“If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.”

“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”

“The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.”

“What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?”