I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.