It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery