This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.