What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

Convictions are prisons.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.