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

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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