People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.