We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.