Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

No ends, simply means.