Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

The crown of literature is poetry.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.