He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

God is on the side of the big battalions.