There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

Brevity - the sister of talent.