A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Translation is at best an echo.

We must walk before we run.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.