Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.