A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.