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.

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.

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

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

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.

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

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