I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Security will produce danger.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.