Talent is often a defect in character.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.