A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

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