As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.