Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?