"As a literary man, I shall be a failure."

"The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us, (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery—in a word, busy-bo…"

"Nemo me impune lacessit."

"To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on either side. Now we may lay by a piece of money — but we lie by a wife."

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."