Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.