Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.