Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.