It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.