Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Good but rarely came from good advice.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

To have joy, one must share it.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?