I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.