“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts; the other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.”