In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.