I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.