Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.