Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
The art of life is to show your hand.
To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.