To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.