Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.