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.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."