Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.