We moderns are perhaps inferior to our ancestors in nothing more than…

Whenever you see a book frequently advertised, you may be pretty sure it is a bad one. If you see a puff quoted in the advertisement, you may be quite sure.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.

Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced.

He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.