We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.