unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
It is a long road from conception to completion.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.