Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.