A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.