The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.