Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.