The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.