A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.