There Is Within Us A Moral Instinct

My Position Is Such That There Is No Necessity For Me To Enter Into Competition With Struggling Humanity. As To Expensive And Ruinous Pleasures, I Am A Sceptic Who Knows How Much They Are Worth, Or Rather, Knows That They Are Not Worth Anything.

Every Novelist Should Write Something For Children At Least Once In His Lifetime.

Day Is Like Day As Two Beads In A Rosary, Unless Changes Of Weather Form The Only Variety.

Life Deserves Laughter, Hence People Laugh At It.

There Is Probably No Greater Idler Than Myself. And I Would Consider Myself A Lazy-bones If I Did Not Write So Many Volumes, And If I Did Not Admire My Diligence Once I Begin Writing.