All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.