If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.