A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.