It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.