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.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.