In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

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

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

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

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