Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

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.