personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue