Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

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.

Live life to the fullest.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.