I wish these flies would piss off.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.