A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.