"All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own."

"There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail."

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

"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star."

"Thank heavens the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

"By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!"

"I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities."

"How use doth breed a habit in a man."