Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.