"To be original, one must be independent of the opinions of others."

"I have a profound conviction that the world is a species of gigantic jest—a jest of the most elaborate and stupendous—of the most complicated and august—and of the most utterly incomprehensible charac…"

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good. But I have never seen anything so good as a good wife."

"Nemo me impune lacessit."

"We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation - to make a point - than to further the cause of truth."