In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.