There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.