All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I cannot live one day without love.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.