People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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 advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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 history of art is the history of revivals.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.