All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.