A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

The devil is compromise.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?