If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.