If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

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

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

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.

Grub first, then ethics.