Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.