What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.