In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.