A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.