“I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.”
“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”
“Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!”
“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”
“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
“I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.”