Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.