“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believingstrange things, and the stranger they are the easier they passwith him; but never regards those that are plain andfeasible, for every man can believe such.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

“Friendship is like Money; easier made than kept.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?”