The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.