We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
To write is a humiliation.
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.