Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.
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.
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!