Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.