Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.