Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

You don't even live once.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.