Great Throughts Treasury

"When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors."

"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."

"Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."

"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."

"You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate."

"Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind."