God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

People are more fun than anyone.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.