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

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

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

“Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”

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

“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 two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”