I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.