The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.