If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.