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.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.