He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit