Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Look before you leap, for as you sow, so are you likely to reap.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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 sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.