the only revenge worth having is success.
Fame compensates for a column of wants.
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.