Talent is often a defect in character.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.