Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

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

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.