you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

I cannot live one day without love.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'