There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.