When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
Those who set out to serve both god and mammon soon discover that there is no god.
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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.
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.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
