How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?