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

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

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.