To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.