Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

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

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.

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!

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.