What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

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

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.