Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.