Without big words, how could many people say small things?

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.