People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.