One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

God first, then papa.

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.