If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.