He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, …

[A] classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit …

You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I…

I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people woul…

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.