You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

I will maintain it before the whole world.