We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.