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.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Everything popular is wrong.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.