“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.”

“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”

“Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.”

“Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither;—these make the finest company in the world.”

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.”

“All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.”