All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

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