Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.