The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.