"No publisher should ever express an opinion..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.”

“It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.”

“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”

“I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."”

“Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.”

“Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.”

“Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?”