Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.