Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.