"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul."

"Speed, it seems, is the only quality that gives pleasure to the modern mind."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"The highest and most important things in life are not to be found in the realm of the senses."

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."