There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.