Kara

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
― C.S. Forester, The African Queen

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”
― H. Rider Haggard