I don't trust him. We're friends.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.