The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. |
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. |
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony . . . |
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. |
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. |
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes. |
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. |