To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.