No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!