Money is a most important thing in the world.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.