"I am a man of simple tastes, easily satisfied with the best."

"I am not at all surprised that good people are so unhappy. They have such a dreadful time trying to be good."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."