And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.