If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.