 A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. |
| What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? |
| It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. |
| To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. |
| When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. |
| If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. |
| It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. |
| Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. |
| A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. |
| There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. |
| What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? |
| Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. |
| People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. |
| There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. |
| Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. |
| What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? |
| The newest books are those that never grow old. |
| Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. |
| All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. |
| Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. |
