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

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.