A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.