In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.