A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.