The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.