It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only know how to write about it

He makes a Foe who makes a jest.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest

He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its pruity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors.

Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me