When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

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

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.