“And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”

“Always desire to learn something useful.”

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?.”