"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."

"The church is always trying to get money, and always trying to be popular, and always doing both things very badly."

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and…"

"All good things arrive unto them that wait and don't die in the meantime."

"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."