Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.