This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.