It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.