There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

Beware of creating tedium!