By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.