Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

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.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.