Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.