“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”

“Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain”

“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”

“The vices of some men are magnificent”

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”

“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”