Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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