When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.