There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.