1. “Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”
2. “The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the laides who lose it.”
3. “Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”
4. “Style is a magic wand and turns everything to gold that it touches.”
5. “An improper mind is a perpetual feast.”
6. “It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.”
7. “Eat with the rich, but go to play with the poor, who are capable of joy.”
8. “The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.”
9. “Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.”
10. “Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the paddled cell of his breast.”
11. “Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.”
12. “Friend such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.”
13. “One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.”
14. “Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.”
15. “The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.”
16. “All reformer, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.”
17. “The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.”
18. “For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.”
19. “It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”
20. “Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
21. “How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
22. “People have the right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.”
23. “It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”
24. “People say that life is a thing, but I prefer reading.”
25. “The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
26. “There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.”
27. “We need two kind of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”
28. “The test of enjoyment us the remembrance which it leaves behind.”
29. “There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.”
30. “Don’t tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”
