Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!