Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.