Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.