Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

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