It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.