Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Wise men when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet give themselves the benefit of the doubt and remain silent.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

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.

In politics every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

There is in fact no law or government at all [in Italy], and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

Then my verse I dishonor my pictures despise my person degrade and my temper chastise, and the pen is my terror the pencil my shame, and my talents I bury and dead is my fame.

God gives everything, whatever we get is His grace. You have no right to judge whether what you get is good or bad.

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