Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.