I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.