All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.