If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

We must walk before we run.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Translation is at best an echo.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.