The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.