 We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. |
| Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. |
| How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? |
| A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Topics: Best Friend |
| The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. |
| There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. |
| The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. |
| Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. |
| The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. |
| What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. |
| People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. |
| The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. |
| There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. |
| It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. |
| Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. |
| Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. |
| If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. |
| Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. |
