You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.