A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.