Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously.

It's literary suicide.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

All things come from above.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.