Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.