"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"I am not a man of letters. I am a man of words."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."