If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.